Two dead, hundreds rescued off Italy

TWO migrants have died at sea while trying to reach Italian shores from North Africa, while hundreds more were rescued and taken to the island of Lampedusa. The victims were on a rubber dinghy with 88 other would-be migrants. They were spotted...

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Burma unrest death toll reaches 43

THE death toll from recent communal violence in central Burma has risen to 43 with more than 1300 homes and other buildings destroyed. Sixty-eight people have been arrested in connection with the Buddhist-Muslim unrest, which has left 11,376...

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Attacks leave more than 50 dead in Nigeria

ATTACKS on villages surrounding a central Nigerian city at the heart of unrest between Christians and Muslims have killed more than 50 people this week. Officials say an assault on Wednesday on a village in the Riyom local government area killed...

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Napolitano bids to end impasse in Italy

ITALIAN President Giorgio Napolitano has asked two unidentified "groups" to come up with a program for government in a bid to end a deadlock between parties more than a month after elections that left no clear winner. Napolitano stressed that...

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Court upholds election of Kenya's Kenyatta

KENYA'S Supreme Court has upheld the victory of Uhuru Kenyatta in the March 4 presidential election. The court unanimously ruled that the election had been conducted in a "free, fair, transparent and credible" manner and that Kenyatta and his...

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Mandela 'breathing without difficulty'

NELSON Mandela is comfortable and breathing without difficulty on his third day in hospital after the anti-apartheid hero was treated for pneumonia, South Africa's presidency says. Messages of concern for the ailing 94-year-old, one of the towering...

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Tanzanian building collapse toll hits 19

THE death toll from a building collapse in Tanzania's economic capital Dar es Salaam has risen to 19, officials say. "Two more bodies were found this afternoon," regional commissioner Saidi Mecky Sadicky told AFP, updating an earlier toll of 17...

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Body found as Tibet mine disaster kills 83

Eighty-three workers have been buried after a large-scale landslide hit a mining area in Tibet. Source: AAP RESCUE teams have found the first body almost 36 hours after a giant landslide in Tibet buried 83 mine workers. Xinhua news agency...

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